{"id":161215,"date":"2012-02-03T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161215"},"modified":"2012-02-04T05:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:45:50","slug":"murder-suspect-to-enter-plea-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161215","title":{"rendered":"Nate Anderson Sentenced to 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=161565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-161565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/anderson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"anderson1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161565\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A 16-year-old Chapel Hill teen was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to the 2010 shooting death of his sister. Mark Nathaniel \u201cNate\u201d Anderson was arrested October 2010 in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Amanda Anderson. Amanda Anderson was found dead in her bedroom Sept. 15 around 7:20 p.m. in the 10,000 block of CR 2273 in Smith County.<\/p>\n<p>Smith County Prosecutor Matt Bingham said he was certain they had the right person all along, but it wasn\u2019t until last month that Nate Anderson admitted to a psychologist hired by the defense that he had killed his sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is unusual because the Andersons are the parents of both the victim and the defendant. My prayers are with the Andersons because they have essentially lost both their children. I can only imagine how difficult this has been for them,\u201d Bingham said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the shooting, Nate Anderson reportedly told officers he went for a short jog in the woods, and when he returned he found his sister dead. He told officers in a recorded conversation, and several times in interviews that he did not enter his sister\u2019s room or touch her, however Nate Anderson\u2019s shirt, pants and shoes showed blood spatter patterns that could only exist if he were in the room at the time of the shooting, arrest affidavits showed. Bingham said the Anderson&#8217;s were in agreement with the resolution of the case.<\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement included Nate Anderson waiving his right to appeal and the defense requested that his psychological evaluation be sealed, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A 16-year-old Chapel Hill teen was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to the 2010 shooting death of his sister. Mark Nathaniel \u201cNate\u201d Anderson was arrested October 2010 in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Amanda Anderson. Amanda Anderson was found dead in her bedroom Sept. 15 around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nate Anderson Sentenced to 20 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 22:36:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161215"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162015,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161215\/revisions\/162015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}